AC Valhalla’s Next Update Allows Users to Fine-Tune Combat Difficulty

Title Update 1.5.0 for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla goes live on February 22, complete with new gameplay options that will allow players to fine-tune difficulty. The new Title Update will likely serve as the last major set of changes ahead of AC Valhalla’s Dawn of Ragnarök expansion, paid DLC scheduled to place Odin in the hot seat yet again when it launches on March 10.

Since its launch in November 2020, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla has received a treasure trove of minor and major content updates. Some releases previously added limited-time seasonal events such as the Ravensthorpe-hosted festivals celebrating the coming of winter, spring, summer, and fall. In other post-launch updates, Ubisoft developers introduced players to new game modes, namely River Raids and Mastery Challenges, to varying degrees of success with regards to user reception. The advent of Discovery Tour: Viking Age in October 2021 marked one of the most significant free content rollouts, too, having arrived a couple of months after AC Valhalla’s second paid DLC, The Siege of Paris. With the next expansion right around the corner, it only makes sense for Ubisoft to unleash yet another noteworthy patch.

Tomorrow, February 22, Ubisoft plans to deploy Assassin’s Creed Valhalla Title Update 1.5.0, a patch preparing the experience for Dawn of Ragnarok’s release in March. The update will, of course, add a slew of bug fixes and gameplay adjustments, in addition to unlocking access to Saga Difficulty Mode. According to a Ubisoft blog post, Saga Difficulty allows users to fine-tune combat and stealth to their personal preferences. Combat changes, in particular, ensure enemies inflict less damage and don’t scale with Eivor; meanwhile, stealth-based adjustments should give players more time to perform actions when detected. The new combat settings also let players tune the damage Eivor receives, their damage output, enemy health modifiers, and Adrenaline regeneration.

Such difficulty modifiers couldn’t have come at a better time given the imminence of the Dawn of Ragnarok DLC’s release. Because the upcoming expansion will boast so many enhancements to the core experience’s gameplay formula, some players may find adjusting certain aspects of combat and stealth beneficial in the long run. Fortunately, the wait to see how it all plays out is drawing to a close.

Ubisoft launched Assassin’s Creed Valhalla as a cross-gen title in November 2020. The choice of a Viking-era setting seems to have worked in the publisher’s favor, too, considering the adventure became the fastest-selling entry in franchise history. And the hits keep coming, too. In a recent financial earnings report, CEO Yves Guillemot confirmed AC Valhalla has generated $1 billion in revenue, making it the highest-earning Assassin’s Creed outing to date.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is playable on Google Stadia, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

Source: Assassin’s Creed/Twitter, Ubisoft

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